Core_Computer Studies: Keeping track of your research on the World Wide Web

Keeping track of your research on the World Wide Web.

Keep track and document any research you do online.

You need to cite information sources in essays and reports so you must keep a record of all research done online.

Copyright : By law you must acknowledge when using source material or images in essay or own artwork.

By keeping track of your online research it will enable you to find and re-visit the site at a later date. Often information can change. By re-visiting a site you can keep up to date on a particular topic or in the case of exhibitions and the like, you know what is on where and when.

You can share information by passing on the URL (location/address) to lecturer, colleague or friend.

Firstly when you perform any type of search you can keep a note of it by using a simple text program. Create a file and copy and paste the URL's of interest into the document. Also while you are at it make a brief note of what the site is about.

Ways of Documenting and Keeping Track of Internet Searches:

Printing Print web pages (including images)

To do this go to

File > Print

In the case of framed documents make sure you have clicked in the frame (this selects the frame to be printed) you wish to print and choose

File > Print Frame

The print dialogue box -

You can set your print features so that the print out will display the URL (location) at top of printed page, the date the page number etc. In the labs the default is usually set up so that the URL and date are printed with a web page.

Keep print outs of web pages in visual diary or with your notes for Art Theory or Core Computer. Printing is fine for articles and the like which are written and presented in a linear manner. Print however is not very useful for a site which has been designed as a visually stimulating, hyper linked multimedia presentation. These sites because of their non- linear structure are not something you would print out.

Bookmarking or keeping "Favourites"

To add a site to your Bookmarks list :

Firstly remember that you must be at the page you would like to add to your Bookmarks file.

Click the Bookmarks button (the bookmark icon) and select Add Bookmark.

This is fine at home but simply not practical if you work from the labs

Copy individual locations

If you want to save an individual bookmark you can "drag and drop" the book mark icon to left of location window. This action which will copy the URL into your users space. This is a simple quick and easy method which is fine if you are in a hurry or if you have just a few individual sites to keep track of.

To organize and edit bookmarks

You can create folders in which to keep bookmarks organized. This feature is found by once again going to the main menu, opening the navigator icon and go to bookmarks.

In the file menu you will find 'New folder" This is what you want to create.

A dialogue box appears in which you can name the folder. You can move folders and bookmarks around by highlighting them and dragging them to where in the list you want them to appear. So you can arange them into categories and under subject headings.

These notes are written for students who undertake the Core Computer course at School of Art, Australian National University. Students of the course should feel free to contact any member of staff with comments questions and general suggestions..

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